Calendar-holder for display-cards



I M. HARVEY. CALENDAR HOLDER FOR DISPLAY CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED ssrmzo, 1920.

, Patented Feb. 15,1921.

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UNITED STATES PAllENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL HARVEY, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CALENDAR-HOLDER FOR DISPLAY-CARDS.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL HARVEY, a citizen of Russia, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Calendar-Holders for Display-Cards, of which the following is a de scription.

This invention has reference to calendar holders for display cards of various kinds and, particularly, has reference to a means for holding and supporting a calendar on the back of a stiff supporting medium such as a display, advertising'or ornamental card a advertislng or other display media, etchings,

of any lnnd.

Among the objects of my invention may be noted the following: to provide a means by which a calendar may be supported upon a stiff card or similar medium which may be employed for display or advertising purposes, or for works of art such as paintings in water color or oil, lithographs, etc.; to provide a simple and compact calendar holder by means of which a small calendar may be secreted on the back of a stiff medium or card which may be employed for any of the purposes noted in the foregoing; to provide means by which a calendar may be carried on the backof a supporting medium and drawn out for display, observation, use and examination and returned to position to pro tect the calendar and disguise the characteristics of the supporting medium; to provide a calendar holder which may be quickly and readily applied to a means of support and which, when applied, may be readily and quickly drawn out for inspection and which, at other times, may be protected from injury and hidden from view.

'With the above objects in view and others which will be detailed during the course of this description, my invention consists in the parts, features, elements and combinations thereof hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have provided drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation or top plan view of a supporting medium having a section of the latter broken away to disclose details of construction of the calendar holder and calendar, and having dotted line indications of functional positions of the calendar;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 20, 1820. Serial No. 411,587.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

water colors, lithographing, etc., according to the purposes for which the device is produced. This supporting medium may be of stiff paper, cardboard, celluloid, light metal, or any other material which is found suitable for the objects or purposes contemplated.

The calendar holder, shown in detail in F ig. 3, consists of a sheet 2 of flexible material capable ,of being readily folded or manipulated so as to produce an envelop within which the members of Figs. 4 and 5 may be enfolded and held for functional purposes. To produce the envelop or holder, the sheet 2 is cut on the lines 33, thus producing opposite end flaps 4, which are folded over toward each other on the dotted lines 5 so as to enable the holder to encompass and hold the two members of Figs. l and 5, see Figs. 1 and 2. By cutting the sheet 2 on the lines 3, and folding the same on the lines 5, the body of the sheet produces a facing or cover which is exposed at the back of the supporting medium 1, presenting two wings 6, under which the lugs 7 of the calendar carrier operate and by which they are protected. When the holder 2 is folded on the lines 5, the central. body portion is only slightly greater in width than the width of the calendar carrier below the lugs 7 and, when so folded, the portions along the lines 5 at the bottom of the holder,viewing Fig. 3,constitute opposite side guides for the movement of the calendar holder; and the inner ends of the folded portions at both top and bottom of the holder operate as stops against which the lugs 7 on the calendar carrier engage to limit both the outward and inward movement of the calendar carrier within the holder, the lugs 7 sliding along the protecting wings 6. This will be readily understood upon reference to Fig. 2 and broken away portion of Fig. 1. Thus the calendar carrier can be drawn down or outwardly for display and inspection purposes only a limited distance, and is prevented from being pushed out of the holder calendar or'tolthe-back of the carrier, as

may be found most convenient or'expeditious. Thus, when the calendar carrier is in placcin the holder of Fig. 3, it may be drawn downwardly or outwardly, as shown in dotted lines 11, Fig. 1, for inspection, etc., it being understood that the calendar carrier is placed in the holder with the calendar facing inwardly toward the supporting medium, so that,-when the carrier is drawn downwardly or outwardly, the holder or other. device secured to the carrier will be face up forinspection. Fig. 5 shows aprotecting member the body portion 12 of which is the same shape and size as the body portion 8 ofthecarrier, and the lugs 13 of which are of the same shape and size and are disposed similarly to the lugs 7 on the carrier. This protecting member is applied to the face of the article 9 on the carrier, and said article is thus protected facially while being moved back and forth upon the su porting medium 1.

. he parts are assembled by placing the calendar carrier in'ithe holder with the lugs 7 and top edge of the carrier parallel with the short upper edges of the wings 6, and the side edges of the body portion of the carrier parallel with the long side edges of said wings 6, which also brings the side edges of the carrier parallel with the bottom fold lines 5 of the holder.

The carrierzthus places the calendar or article. 9 thereon face upwardly. The protectingmember is then laid upon the carrier and upon the face ofthe calendar 9 with all .its parts "registering accurately with the parts of the carrier. The holder is then folded onthe dotted lines 5, thus causing'the flaps to turn over upon. the protecting member 12. The carrier and protecting member are thusenfolded in the envelop, and the entire ,deviceias thus assembledis ready to be @applied to the back of .the supporting medium. [The device thus prepared is se-' cured .to the back of the supporting medium .1 byapplying' pasteor glue to the exposed surfaces .of .thezfiaps #tandto the exposed surface of the body portion 12 of the protecting medium lying between the two flaps; and, insecuring the device to the back of the supporting medium, slight pressure may be applied so as to cause the protecting member to lie between the two adjacent edges of the flaps l, as shown at 14 in Fig. 2, or the ridge 14 may be pressed into the body of the protecting member 12 primarily, or sufficient glue or paste may be applied to the flaps and protecting member to cause the three parts to adhere to the supporting mediumwithout producing in the protecting member the longitudinal rib or raised portion 14.

The various parts thus assembled and ap-' pliec to the supporting medium 1 are held in position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the carrier 8 may be drawn outwardly be tween the body portion of the holder and the protecting member 12 by pulling upon the tape 10, thus drawing thecalendar 9 downwardly, as at 11 in Fig. 1, or outwardly, as

at 15 in said figure. That is to say, the device may be applied to its supporting medium so as to be drawn outwardly or ex-' posed at its bottom edge, or it maybe so applied as to be drawn outwardly and exposed at its side edge,'as at 15. r The lugs 7, when the carrier isdrawn downwardly, engage the folded portion at the bottom of the holder, and, when the carrier is returned to position within the holder, the lugs 7 engage the folds at the top or opposite end of the holder. The wings 6 on the one side and'the supporting medium on the other protect the lugs 7, while the body of the protecting medium 12 protects the face of the calendar 9,as the latter is shifted, it being understoodthat the protecting medium,as well as'the holder, remain stationary on the supporting medium at all times. r

Ornamental cards, as well as advertising anddisplay cards can "be produced, according to my invention as -above described,.and made doubly efiective and usefulby having the calendarapplied thereto, or, in place of the calendar, some otheruseful and desir able medium, thus enhancing the commercial value of the article as a wh01e,.regardless of whether it is ornate or merely an advertising or displaymedium.

Having thus described my. invention, what T claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a supporting medium, a sheath-like holder permanently applied to the supporting medium, a carrier for a suitable article inclosed bythe holder and having'a tabby which to manipulate it, and at protecting .medium .for the carrier, overlying the latter, inclosed by the holder and fixed to the supporting medium.

.2. A holder forcalendarsorother suitable articles composedof a sheetof fiat material having its body portion at oppositeasidesicut to produce oppositely extending wings and to provide flaps adapted to overlie the body of the holder within the boundary of the wings, and a supporting medium to which the flaps are permanently secured.

3. In combination with a holder sheathlike in form and provided with overlying flaps, a calendar carrier adapted to be enfolded by the holder and having two oppositely extending lugs passing through slots in the holder, the lugs of the carrier co operating with portions of the flaps whereby the movement of the carrier is limited in two opposite directions, and a supporting medium to which the flaps are permanently secured.

4. In combination with a supporting medium, a holder of sheath-like form having two overlying flaps secured to the said medium, a calendar carrier inclosed by the holder, and a protecting medium applied to the face of the calendar carrier and also en- ;t'olded by the holder, and means carried by the carrier cooperating with means of the holder to limit the movement of the carrier in two opposite directions relatively to the holder.

MICHAEL HARVEY. 

